Gadgets & Tech – Spoken Edition

OnePlus is well known among smartphone and tech enthusiasts, but more than four years after releasing its first handset and partnering with supermodels and trendy fashion brands like Colette to help push its products, OnePlus still isn’t exactly a household name in the U.S.

Scientists created this picture of the Mona Lisa using genetically modified E. coli bacteria. Such teeny little artists! The Italian researchers weren’t just playing around with bacteria for fun. Rather, they were attempting to unite different attributes so they could control large populations of bacteria—perhaps to one day build microscopic transport devices, or even 3D print using bacteria.

A spectre is haunting San Francisco—the spectre of feces. The Golden City has the second-highest cost of living in the U.S. and a major factor contributing to that fact is its housing crisis. Jeff Kositsky, director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told ABC in June that homelessness isn’t on the rise, it’s just “more visible.

A summer student has been removed from an experiment after NASA decided that a completely accurate note mentioning the President attached to an experiment that fell in a New Jersey field was a “misguided attempt to be lighthearted,” a NASA spokesperson told WNBC-TV.

Authorities partially closed Schönefeld Airport in Berlin on Tuesday after they confused a bag of sex toys for a bomb. During an X-ray scan of luggage, security noticed “suspicious content in a luggage piece,” German federal police told CNN. The airport responded to the peculiar items by issuing an alert, which closed down terminal D just before 11 a.m., so that police could investigate the contents of the bag. Airport employees then called the bag’s owner over the speakers.

Earlier today, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft came tantalizingly close toRyugu, offering an unprecedented view of the asteroid’s boulder-strewn surface. Two weeks ago, Hayabusa2 came to within six kilometers (3.7 miles) of Ryugu, but today’s descent, the third of the mission, saw Hayabusa2 come to within 851 meters (2,800 feet) of the asteroid, making it the closest encounter to date.

Beware, lactose-intolerant Almond Breeze drinkers: There may be milk in your milk alternative. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that HP Hood is recalling many half-gallon cartons of Blue Diamond’s Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk because the products may contain real milk. “There was a failure in the production process and some milk accidentally or inadvertently was entered into the batch of almond milk,” HP Hood spokesperson Lynne Bohan told Gizmodo.

Following an apparent change to Twitter’s auto-populating search dropdown first discovered by Gizmodo over the weekend, the platform has responded to a wave of angry, uninformed criticism on its official blog.

A new hero of the automotive industry has arisen from Elon Musk’s ashes. But Daniel Tillotson’s contributions to the car don’t have anything to do with transitioning away from fossil fuels. Instead, he focused his genius on the problem of safely enjoying a beverage behind the wheel, developing an innovation that any driver would appreciate on a hot day.

People who fall in the center of the Venn diagram of warehouse club membership and processed meat fandom are angry about Costco’s recent decision to remove a beloved item from its menu—and are logging on to vent their rage. Earlier this month, The Seattle Times reported that Costco would stop serving Polish dogs in its food courts.